"concerts on May 2 and 3, 1963, which were issued later that year as ""Reunion At Carnegie Hall, 1963"". Later recordings include those by Judy Collins (""Judy Collins 3""), Theodore Bikel (""A Folksinger's Choice""), Tim Rose (""Tim Rose""), Bobbie Gentry (""Local Gentry""), Uriah Heep (""...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble""), Velvett Fogg (""Velvett Fogg""), UFO (""UFO 1""), Kenny Rankin (""Mind-Dusters""), The Big 3 (""Live at the Recording Studio""), Cat's Eyes, and L.Stadt. In the UK it was a number 47 hit for female singer Barry St. John in 1965. Come Away Melinda ""Come Away Melinda"" is a song written by Fred Hellerman"
"Heavy (Iron Butterfly album) Heavy is the debut studio album by the rock band Iron Butterfly, released in early 1968. The first two tracks, ""Unconscious Power"" and ""Possession"", were released as the respective sides of a single. Three of the group's members (Darryl DeLoach, Jerry Penrod, and Danny Weis) left the band shortly after the album was recorded, leaving Ingle and Bushy to find replacements. Despite being a debut album with no hit single to provide an entry point for the casual listener, ""Heavy"" was a commercial success, reaching number 78 on the Billboard Charts and eventually going Gold in"
"as the B-side to ""Possession""), ""It's All Up to You"", and ""Gloomy Day to Remember"". Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine rated ""Heavy"" three-and-a-half out of five stars. He stated that ""most of the album was not particularly well written"" but that ""the band's overwhelmingly loud sonic attack occasionally made up for the weakness in the material."" Heavy (Iron Butterfly album) Heavy is the debut studio album by the rock band Iron Butterfly, released in early 1968. The first two tracks, ""Unconscious Power"" and ""Possession"", were released as the respective sides of a single. Three of the group's members (Darryl DeLoach, Jerry"
"Heavy metal music Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo. In 1968, three of the genre's most famous pioneers, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were founded. Though they came to attract wide audiences,"
"Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English rock music band formed in Hertford in 1968. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a progressive rock band, the band shifted to a heavier sound in 1970. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the ""unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies"". They were listed in the 1975 ""Guinness Book of World Records"" as ""the globe's loudest band"""
"The Heavy (band) The Heavy are a British rock band from Bath, Somerset, England, formed in 2007 and signed to Ninja Tune imprint Counter Records and the Bad Son Recording Company. They have released four albums as well as a wide array of singles. Their music has been widely used in the media, with their 2009 single ""How You Like Me Now?"" being used the most and becoming the band's signature song. The Heavy are Kelvin Swaby (lead vocals), Dan Taylor (guitar), Spencer Page (bass guitar) and Chris Ellul (drums). Taylor and Swaby became friends in 1998 when they bonded"
"latter two were eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica), as well as certain Deep Purple songs such as ""Speed King"", ""Fireball"" and ""Highway Star"". The latter was called ""early speed metal"" by Robb Reiner of speed metal band Anvil. The origin song for the genre was aptly named ""Speed King"" by Deep Purple. Recording on the song started in 1969 making it nearly a full decade ahead of the musical style being recognized. The song is not only very fast and technical but was also extremely loud creating noticeable distortion in the recording process. The title song for"
"early heavy metal included the Amboy Dukes and Steppenwolf. From England, two former guitarists with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, moved on to form key acts in the genre, The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin respectively. Other major pioneers of the genre had begun as blues-based psychedelic bands, including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest and UFO. Psychedelic music also contributed to the origins of glam rock, with Marc Bolan changing his psychedelic folk duo into rock band T. Rex and becoming the first glam rock star from 1970. From 1971 David Bowie moved on from his"
"Heavy Load (band) Heavy Load is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm. The band is often hailed as the first Swedish heavy metal band, and were known for their Viking themes. The Wahlquist brothers, who founded the band in 1976 along with Michael Backler, were later producers and owners of Thunderload Records in Sweden, were at one point producing Veni Domine, and also were considering releasing a new album, though that never occurred. Various touring and demo line-ups of the band have included UFO and The Damned bass player Paul Gray, Treat guitarist Leif Liljegren, and renowned architect Eero"
"Heavy: The Story of Metal Heavy: The Story of Metal is a four-part documentary special that aired on VH1 in 2006. The series focuses on the origins, subgenres, and the bands of heavy metal music, paying close attention to influential bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden, who helped to define heavy metal in its early years. Other bands on the program include, Alice Cooper, Kiss, AC/DC, Van Halen, Europe, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, Guns N' Roses, and Marilyn Manson. However, the documentary notably passes over lower profile metal subgenres such"
"Critics disagree over who can be thought of as the first heavy metal band. Most credit either Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, with American commentators tending to favour Led Zeppelin and British commentators tending to favour Black Sabbath, though many give equal credit to both. A few commentators—mainly American—argue for other groups including Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf or Blue Cheer. Deep Purple, the third band in what is sometimes considered the ""unholy trinity"" of heavy metal (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple), despite being slightly older than Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, fluctuated between many rock styles until late 1969"
"when they took a heavy metal direction. In 1968, the sound that would become known as heavy metal began to coalesce. That January, the San Francisco band Blue Cheer released a cover of Eddie Cochran's classic ""Summertime Blues"", from their debut album ""Vincebus Eruptum"", that many consider the first true heavy metal recording. The same month, Steppenwolf released its self-titled debut album, including ""Born to Be Wild"", which refers to ""heavy metal thunder"" in describing a motorcycle. In July, the Jeff Beck Group, whose leader had preceded Page as The Yardbirds' guitarist, released its debut record: ""Truth"" featured some of"
"Heavy Lord Heavy Lord was a doom/sludge metal band from Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands Heavy Lord formed in 2003 and after a serial of gigs they recorded their first album ""The Holy Grail"" in 2004 at the Yellow Tape studio in Belgium. Following this release the band had many gigs across the Netherlands. In 2005 they recorded their second album ""From Cosmos to Chaos"" at Het Pand in Vlaardingen and released it themselves. After Belgium they made their debut in Germany, supporting Crowbar and High on Fire, and did their first tour with Belgian doom band Mose. In 2006 Heavy Lord was"
"heavy metal. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album, ""Are You Experienced"" (1967), was also highly influential. Hendrix's virtuosic technique would be emulated by many metal guitarists and the album's most successful single, ""Purple Haze"", is identified by some as the first heavy metal hit. Vanilla Fudge, whose first album also came out in 1967, has been called ""one of the few American links between psychedelia and what soon became heavy metal"", and the band has been cited as an early American heavy metal group. On their self-titled debut album, Vanilla Fudge created ""loud, heavy, slowed-down arrangements"" of contemporary hit songs,"
"Orchestra, Lita Ford and Queen. Heavy metal music Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo. In 1968, three of the genre's most famous pioneers, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were founded. Though they"
"bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, powerful sound, characterised by overt rhythmic basslines, highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles often incorporated elements of fantasy and science fiction, and are generally associated with masculinity and machismo. The three pioneering heavy metal bands, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, were all British and, while gaining little critical acclaim, they and the next generation of metal groups, which included American, Australian and continental bands beside British acts Judas Priest, Motörhead and Rainbow, attracted large audiences and record sales. Rainbow"
"by aggressive, driving rhythms, amplified and distorted guitars, grandiose lyrics, and virtuosic instrumentation. Heavy metal's origins lie in the hard rock bands who took blues and rock and created a heavy sound built on guitar and drums. Most of the pioneers in the field were British; the first major American bands came in the early 1970s, like Blue Öyster Cult, KISS, and Aerosmith. Heavy metal remained, however, a largely underground phenomenon. During the 1980s the first major pop-metal style arose and dominated the charts for several years kicked off by metal act Quiet Riot and dominated by bands such as"
"Heavy Metal Kids The Heavy Metal Kids were a seventies British glam rock band. The band's founding frontman Gary Holton and guitarist Mickey Waller are dead. The Heavy Metal Kids were formed by the merger of two previous bands: Heaven and Biggles. They took their name from a gang of street kids, featured in the novel ""Nova Express"" by William S. Burroughs. The initial, pre-recording line-up consisted of Mickey Waller (guitar), Ronnie Thomas (bass and vocals), Gary Holton (lead vocals), Keith Boyce (drums) and Cosmo (guitar). They were the first signing by Atlantic Records' new London offices, having been spotted"
"at No. 16 in the UK album charts. ""As Safe As Yesterday Is"" was one of the first albums to be described by the term ""heavy metal"" in a 1970 review in ""Rolling Stone"" magazine. Their second album, ""Town and Country"" released in the UK during 1969 while the band was away on its first tour of the US. This album featured a more acoustic sound and songs written by all four members. Humble Pie concerts at this time featured an acoustic set, with a radical re-working of Graham Gouldman's ""For Your Love"" as its centrepiece followed by an electric"
"Purple released a video version of ""Time for Bedlam"", the first track taken from the new album and the first new Deep Purple track for almost four years. Deep Purple are cited as one of the pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal, along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. The group have influenced a number of rock and metal bands including Metallica, Judas Priest, Queen, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Alice in Chains, Pantera, Bon Jovi, Europe, Rush, Motörhead, and many new wave of British heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden, and Def Leppard. Iron Maiden's bassist and primary songwriter,"
"Phillips was recruited for bass and vocal duties Heavy Metal Kids The Heavy Metal Kids were a seventies British glam rock band. The band's founding frontman Gary Holton and guitarist Mickey Waller are dead. The Heavy Metal Kids were formed by the merger of two previous bands: Heaven and Biggles. They took their name from a gang of street kids, featured in the novel ""Nova Express"" by William S. Burroughs. The initial, pre-recording line-up consisted of Mickey Waller (guitar), Ronnie Thomas (bass and vocals), Gary Holton (lead vocals), Keith Boyce (drums) and Cosmo (guitar). They were the first signing by"
"likely to be used with distortion and other effects. Key acts included British Invasion bands like the Kinks, as well as psychedelic era performers like Cream, Jimi Hendrix and the Jeff Beck Group. Hard rock-influenced bands that enjoyed international success in the later 1970s included Queen, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Van Halen. From the late 1960s the term ""heavy metal"" began to be used to describe some hard rock played with even more volume and intensity, first as an adjective and by the early 1970s as a noun. The term was first used in music in Steppenwolf's ""Born to"
"Heavy (Collective Soul song) ""Heavy"" is a song by American post-grunge band Collective Soul. It is the second single from their fourth album ""Dosage"". It was the last of the band's seven number ones on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, as well as their most successful, staying atop the chart for fifteen weeks. It was also their last song to chart on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, peaking at number 73. It was featured as one of two songs in ""NHL 2001"". The song was also featured in the NASCAR intro on NBC in 2003. An instrumental version is played in"
"rock-heavy metal genre, The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin, respectively. Other major pioneers of the heavy metal genre had begun as blues-based psychedelic bands, including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest and UFO. According to American academic Christophe Den Tandt, many musicians during the post-psychedelic era adopted a stricter sense of professionalism and elements of classical music, as evinced by the concept albums of Pink Floyd and the virtuosic instrumentation of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. ""Early-1970s post-psychedelic rock was hatched in small or medium-sized structures"", he adds, naming record labels such as Virgin Records, Island Records, and Obscure Records."
"over vintage R&B music and Jim Jarmusch films and soon formed the band. The Heavy released two singles in the last half of 2007. ""That Kind of Man"", the first single, was released on Don't Touch Recordings and was mixed by Corin Dingley who was the original drummer and co producer of the first album before Ninja Tune discovered them and promptly signed the band, Swaby, Taylor and Dingley. The Heavy released their first album ""Great Vengeance and Furious Fire"" on 17 September 2007 in the United Kingdom and 8 April 2008 in the United States. On 26 March 2008,"
"partnership between Michael English and Nigel Waymouth. The musicians involved in that project were Mike Harrison on keys and vocals, Luther Grosvenor on guitars, Greg Ridley on bass and Mike Kellie on drums, as well as Stevens, English and Waymouth. It was the first time that the term ""heavy metal"" was ever used in music, even though that album had nothing to do with heavy metal music, being closer to psychedelic music. The album was issued in 1967 by Liberty Records and contained only five songs from two minutes to more than 15 minutes of psychedelic and almost meditative state"
"video. A Budgie tribute band called ""Bandoliers"" began playing shows around the UK in 2017. Budgie (band) Budgie are a Welsh rock band from Cardiff. They are described by author Garry Sharpe-Young as one of the earliest heavy metal bands and a seminal influence to many acts of that scene, with fast, heavy rock (an influence on the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) and acts such as Metallica) being played as early as 1971. The band has been noted as ""among the heaviest metal of its day"". Budgie formed in 1967 in Cardiff, Wales under the name Hills"
"heavy metal groups such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. Iron Maiden covered the song ""Massacre"" from Thin Lizzy's ""Johnny the Fox"" album, and released it on their 1988 single ""Can I Play with Madness"". A cover of ""Cowboy Song"" appears on ""Sound of White Noise"" by Anthrax as the bonus track for the album's Japanese release. Thin Lizzy are also a major inspiration for modern heavy metal bands such as Metallica, Alice in Chains, Mastodon and Testament. Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian"
"The Almighty (band) The Almighty were a hard rock/heavy metal band, from Glasgow in Scotland who formed in 1988. Three of the founding members, Ricky Warwick, Stump Monroe and Floyd London were friends who met at school. Although the band members musical roots were in punk, The Almighty adopted a more heavy metal/hard rock oriented musical direction in their early years. Later albums saw the band's musical style move towards the band members' original punk roots. They have released seven studio albums, two anthologies and one live album. The Almighty were formed in Strathaven, Scotland, on 19 January 1988. Most"
"and acid rock on their first two albums ""Led Zeppelin"" (1969) and ""Led Zeppelin II"" (1969), and Deep Purple, who began as a progressive rock group in 1968 but achieved their commercial breakthrough with their fourth and distinctively heavier album, ""In Rock"" (1970). Also significant was Black Sabbath's ""Paranoid"" (1970), which combined guitar riffs with dissonance and more explicit references to the occult and elements of Gothic horror. All three of these bands have been seen as pivotal in the development of heavy metal, but where metal further accentuated the intensity of the music, with bands like Judas Priest following"
"heavy metal and invited his friends Bertrand Poncet, Jonathan Donnaes and Vincent Dahmer, to join the band. Shortly after their formation Vincent left and so they asked Bertrand's brother Éric Poncet and close friend Mathias Rigal who despite having no experience as a bass guitarist joined the band. The band name is taken from the scene in 1985 adventure-comedy film ""The Goonies"", in which Chunk and Sloth arrive on the scene to help their friends. Poncet describes the choice of ""The Goonies"" as a ""good childhood reference"" and felt the name reflected who the band members are. The band found"
"September 1969, the Beatles released the album ""Abbey Road"" containing the track ""I Want You (She's So Heavy)"" which has been credited as an early example of or influence on heavy metal or doom metal. In October 1969, British band High Tide debuted with the heavy, proto-metal album ""Sea Shanties"". Led Zeppelin defined central aspects of the emerging genre, with Page's highly distorted guitar style and singer Robert Plant's dramatic, wailing vocals. Other bands, with a more consistently heavy, ""purely"" metal sound, would prove equally important in codifying the genre. The 1970 releases by Black Sabbath (""Black Sabbath"" and ""Paranoid"")"
"more direct approach than the established English prog rockers. Other heavy metal bands of the era contributing to the genre include England's Iron Maiden and the Danish Mercyful Fate. 1984 brought full length debut albums from American bands Queensrÿche, from Washington, and Fates Warning, from Connecticut. Taking inspiration from established metal acts like Iron Maiden, each expanded their music to include more progressive elements (""The Warning"" 1984, ""The Spectre Within"" 1985) – some through sound experimentation and compositional refinement, others through extremely complex structures and atypical riffs – up to the two seminal works in 1986: ""Rage for Order"" and"